What should your survival kit be compose of?
your kit should have a Browser, an FTP and a Text editor.

I think i don’t have to explain why you should have a browser or do I? . An FTP is a must for easier access and File transfer from your Local Machine to your server. I use this a lot when installing themes, widgets, plugins and when upgrading my wordpress script to the latest version. I also use this in tandem with the text editor to edit my .htaccess or some part of the script. The text editor is great for plugin developer or Wordpress user if you want to edit or findle with your blog script. Altough editing the script is cool that you can customize it to do what exactly you’d like it to do just please “proceed with caution” and that you really should know why you should edit it.

Here is the list
Browser :
FTP Client : FileZilla
Text editor : Notepad++
This tools are free. and are developed under GPL

Enjoy

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